Fire levels three Tuol Kork homes

Fire levels three Tuol Kork homes

Locals extinguish the last flames of a fire that destroyed three homes and a car in Boeung Salang on Tuesday.

A FIRE in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district Tuesday destroyed three homes, and one official warned that the destruction could have been much worse if fire crews had not used all the city’s fire trucks to battle the blaze.

“We were lucky because the fire trucks were able to stop the fire easily,” said Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth. “It did not spread to other houses.”

Yesterday’s fire was sparked by faulty electrical wires in the home of a resident, officials said.

The blaze erupted less than a week after a massive fire tore through a village in Russey Keo’s Chraing Chamres II commune, forcing almost 2,000 people from their homes. On Monday, a smaller fire 3 kilometres away in Svay Pak commune razed three houses to the ground.

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